Article
Abnormal growth hormone receptor gene expression in the sex-linked dwarf chicken.
General and comparative endocrinology - 1 Oct 1992
Burnside J, Liou S S, Zhong C, Cogburn L A
Abstract excerpt
Sex-linked dwarfism is a recessive mutation that causes a reduction in body weight gain and long bone growth of chickens. We examined the effect of the dwarfing gene on body weight, hepatic GH-binding activity, and the structure and expression of the growth hormone receptor (GHR) gene in two different lines of sex-linked dwarf (SLD) broiler chickens. Liver samples from one line of dwarf chicken were obtained from...
Topics
- Animals
- Blotting, Northern
- Blotting, Southern
- Body Weight
- Chickens
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Growth
- Iodine Radioisotopes
- Liver
- Male
- Phenotype
